I’ve decided to start doing floor plans for real estate. Can you suggest what the best floor plan drawing software is? Thanks.

First of all here is a link to the posts we’ve done in the last few years here on floor plans.

Which floor plan product you provide depends first on how elaborate a floor plan you want to make and what’s popular in your market. Over the last several years, floor plans have gotten more elaborate. There are three basic types:

Upper-end 360/3d: If you are shooting upper-end homes you may want to look at Matterport which can make both floorplans and 360 3D images. These make more sense for upper-end because the camera to create them and the hosting service is fairly expensive.

2D Black and White: On the other hand if you just want to create a floorplan to integrate into a virtual tour you will want to get a laser measuring device (like this) that will allow you to quickly measure interiors and use software like either FloorDesign for the Mac or EZblueprint for Windows. Both of these make simple black and white 2D style floorplans.

My laser measure bluetooths the dimension to my tablet which really speeds things up. I leave the property with a 90% complete plan. I tweak the look in Photoshop and that’s it.
The developers are very responsive too which is great.
It is a little expensive though but, since I do a plan for nearly every property I shoot it pays for itself in no time.
Google “Redstick iCad” for details.

We use an app called PlanEdge – https://planedge.co.uk/ – This, again, uses a bluetooth measure to transfer the dimensions across to the tablet so you draw the plan as you go. It has many useful features and using it to draw complicated plans (such as curved walls, non-square rooms, etc.) is so much easier than using a pen and graph paper!

I know I’m updating an old post, but it might still be of interest for some.

If you’re still looking for a software for your floor plans, you should check out Space Designer 3D: https://www.spacedesigner3d.com
Pretty easy to use, lots of features for floor plans, nice furniture catalog quality.